Materials for the Fourth Extraordinary All-Russian Congress of Soviets

1. Outline of Speech at a Session of the Communist Faction of the Congress{196}

1. The turning point: 25. X. 1917–17. II. 1918 and later.

2. Peace at Brest-Litovsk and now… (Trotsky vs[55] advocates of revolutionary war)…

3. "Breathing space."

4. Economic hardship… and Belgium?

5. "Betrayal."

Phrase-mongering.

2 vs 10 and 200,000 vs 1,000,000.

6. Ukraine and Finland.

7. Standpoint of the peasant masses, petty bourgeoisie, declassed soldier…

8. Class forces and the "shameful peace."

And the Russian bourgeoisie?

9. "Leftism" of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.

10. Even "despair"?

11. Utilization of the "breach," "contradictions"—strategic disposition of forces: Germany – England – Japan – America…

NB: 11 bis: Tilsit. Peace and war, their connexion.

12. To wait, to retreat for the sake of waiting.

For what? For whom? For international revolution.

13. Preparation of forces. For "defence of the fatherland."

Discipline and discipline (extending to draconian measures).

Written 12 or 13 March 1918.

First published in 1929 in Lenin Miscellany XI

Printed from the manuscript

2. Outline of Report on Ratification of the Peace Treaty[56]

Outline of Speech at the Congress of Soviets

1. To understand the turning point in history, the change in the correlation of classes and social forces.

2. "Independence" of the Russian revolution 23. II. (1917) – 11. II. (1918). (Causes.)

3. Triumphant march: 25. X. (1917) – 11. II. (1918).

4. Imperialism: an epoch of grave defeats, retreats. Not the same enemy.

No army.

5. "Ahistorical" formulation of the question.

The bourgeoisie and its mouthpieces.

6. Who decomposed the army?

7. Vinnitchenko = Kerensky + Tsereteli + Chernov.

8. Provocation and a trap. "Glad of the Germans"…

9. Despair and phrase-mongering. Phrase and boasting: among the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries

[among us < 1/10 (453 and 36 and 8 = 497){197}]… [Sick army] …

10. Compare 1907 and 1918.

11. The peasantry and phrase-mongering.

12. "Breathing space." Defence of the fatherland.

13. 2 and 10; 200,000 and 1,000,000.

14. The Peace of Tilsit and the weak German people (only weak and backward). Peace and war in their connexion.

15. We wait, retreating, for another ally: the international socialist proletariat.

Written 13 or 14 March 1918.

First published in 1929 in Lenin Miscellany XI

Printed from the manuscript

Notes on the Electrification of Industry in Petrograd and Moscow{198}

Electrification of Industry

(A) Peter

[In Peter, Glushkov's Commission{199}.]

Petrograd Region:

Water Pferde
power: Krafte[57]

201 According to the terms of the Brest peace treaty, a territory rich in shale passed to Estonia.

202 These refer to the power stations "Society of 1886" (MOGES) and "Electrical Transmission" (now the R. E. Klassons station, named after a prominent Soviet power engineer, the builder of this station).

(B) Moscow:

Confirm not as a private bureau.

Written 18 March 1918.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript

Outlines for the Article "The Immediate Tasks of Soviet Power"[58]

1) New objective situation and new stage of our revolution.

2) New orientation.

3) Not only the intensity (of civil war) has changed, but this change is of such a kind that quantity (of changes) has transformed into quality.

Printed for the first time, from the manuscript

Rough outline of plan:

§§ 1–3…

§ 4. Persuade – conquer – govern.

(What comes first.) Not instead of, but along with.

5. Accounting and control (α). Increase of labour productivity (β).

6. The struggle with the bourgeoisie passes into the stage of organized accounting and control. (Not instead of, but along with.)

9. Money. Quid est?[59] (Production; consumption.)

Declaration[60] and keeping in banks.

10. Learn socialism from the greatest organizers of capitalism, from the trusts.

10 bis: Immediate goal (etwa[61]).

6 hours of physical labour + 4 hours of state administration.

11. Taylor's system. Motion study[62].

11 bis: Payment of bourgeois intellectuals:

2000 × 25,000 = 50 million.

Up to 100 million.

|||| 12. Development of Soviet power. In what consists the socialist character of Soviet power?

|||| 13. By departments (α); personal participation in administration (β).

|| 14. From agitator to organizer.

revaluation,

displacement

of leaders

|| 15. Push forward the organizer.

16. Self-discipline blackboard industrial courts.

*** To point. Ed.

|||| 18. Courts, their educational role.

|| 19. Organization of competition.

|| 20. Press vs[63] economics (not politics).

|| 21. Force of example (model commune).

Mass feeding[64]. Agriculture.

|| 22. Cooperatives and their universalization. (Role of trade unions.)

|| 23. Workers as the ruling class.

|| 24. Protracted character of work: beaten half to death

(one cannot revive with a single shake and order).

|| 25. Practicalism and business-like approach as a slogan.

{cf. 17 |||| 26. Sole command.

27. Mass meetings vs business-like discussion and revolutionarity.

28. Beginning of 17th and 20th centuries in Russia.

29. Draw with both hands from abroad.

30. Objection: "protracted?"

8. Workers' control or workers' regulation?

Cooperation.

* Why. Ed.

10. Organization of competition.

Force of example. Communist communes.

Agriculture in particular. Mass feeding.

Publicity.

Bourgeois press (politics) and socialist press (economics).

Blackboard.

Push forward organizers…

Comparison of business results.

Cooperation.

Banks.

Labour productivity.

Agricultural communes

etc.

Number of those learning military affairs.

11. "Well-organized organization" and dictatorship…

Railway decree.

Sole command.

Unquestioning obedience.

Mass meetings vs execution.

Confusion: cauldron: "boils over."

12. Coercion (state) and court.

13. Principles of Soviet power and organization.

Universal

transition: by departments

control (mobile groups)

practical training in administration…

[to succeed before it falls apart]

14. Objections ("errors in assessment").

Who uses whom? ((military organization)).

"Conciliationism."

Petty-bourgeois character, reformism…

Culturalism…

etc.

"Practicalism and business-like approach"?

"Protracted work amid international instability"?

15. Conclusions.

4 bis: Order, rest… Don't steal, don't shirk, account for everything truthfully!

5. Struggle with the bourgeoisie – a new phase:

(α) organized accounting and control (beyond suppression): declaration of money. Village bourgeoisie. NB]

+ Nationalization of banks.

6. (β)… attraction to work of bourgeois intellectuals.

6 bis: Labour obligation on the wealthy.

7. "Purchase": 2000 × 25 thousand = 50 million (practical organizers, specialists)…

8. Military (generals, officers etc.)

ad 8: 8 bis. Military organization:

preparation (of specialists)

workers and poor peasants…

9. "Well-organized organization"…

(1) Sole command.

(2) Unquestioning execution.

(3) Railway decree.

9 bis: Push forward organizers.

10. "Self-discipline."

11. Force of example. Agriculture. Communist communes. Mass feeding.

12. Organization of competition.

13. Role of court: intimidation + education.

14. "Practicalism and business-like approach"…

Who uses whom?

15. Petty-bourgeois character (or reformism)?

"conciliationism"

"reformism"…

"culturalism"…

"petty-bourgeois character"…

16. Protracted work… amid complete (international) instability?

17. International policy: maneuver (with Germany against Japan and v. v.[65])

17 bis: [ IV. and V. – especially difficult months. ]

18. Soviet organization. Toward universal administration

(α) by departments

(β) practical administration.

1. Peace and organizational task.

2. Instability of peace. Real guarantee.

3. Bourgeois revolution vs socialist.

4. Persuade – conquer – govern.

5. General slogan (peace, order, rest),

don't steal, don't shirk, account for everything truthfully!

6. Struggle with the bourgeoisie – new phase

(α) organized accounting and control

(β) "purchase" of "stars."

7. Nationalization of banks.

8. Consumer-productive communes and cooperatives.

9. "Specialists" and Soviet organization.

ad 6

10. Universal labour obligation on the wealthy…

11. Self-discipline. Increase of labour productivity.

12. Piecework payment + Taylor's.

12 bis. Dictatorial power [see 9 §]

13. Organization of competition.

Publicity.

Push forward organizers.

14. Force of example.

Communist communes. Agriculture.

Mass feeding.

15. Court, education.

16. Military organization (see 8 bis).

17. Soviet organization (see 18).

18. Objections (14, 15, 16).

19. International policy (17).

20. Domestic policy (17 bis).

1) Accounting and control of production and distribution of products.

2) Increase of labour productivity.

In essence, this is unachievable in one blow, nor by decree (just as one cannot shake or order back to health a man beaten half to death). Protracted work.

Role of court: both intimidation and education.

Taylor's system

(Motion study etc.)

Force of example: agriculture

Mass feeding

…"Practicalism"…

Workers, as a class of wage slaves, are most capable of rebellion, and as the ruling class.

Draw with both hands from abroad the good: Soviet power + Prussian order of railways + American technique and organization of trusts + American public education etc. etc. + + = Σ[66] = socialism.

I. Struggle with the bourgeoisie passes into the stage of organized accounting and control: declaration of money…

+ Labour obligation

+ accounting of products

+ universal joining in cooperatives.

1. Persuade, conquer, govern (not instead of, but as first priority).

II. All members of Soviets (and the CEC including) must be engaged

(1) by departments; (2) in practical administration.

+ Push forward organizers.

Democratic and socialist character of Soviets: quid est? Universal administration (difference from bourgeois parliament).

III. Well-organized organization. Quid est? Written credentials of the composition of responsible collegiums.

Sole command of each executive function.

Unquestioning execution of orders.

Revaluation of leaders. Agitator vs organizer.

IV. Self-discipline of the toilers.

Increase of labour productivity.

Page of V. I. Lenin's manuscript "Outlines for the Article 'The Immediate Tasks of Soviet Power'." – 1918. (Reduced)

Blackboard. Industrial courts.

Payment of bourgeois intellectuals

2000

×

25000

____

50 million.

100

V. Organization of competition.

1

1–4. International situation and basic tasks of the socialist revolution.

1–4

(pp. 1–9[67]).

2

5. General slogan of the moment. 5

(pp. 9–12).

3

6–7. New phase of struggle with the bourgeoisie. 6. 7. 9. 10

(pp. 12–25).

4

8. Significance of the struggle for universal accounting and control.

(Production and distribution.) 8

(pp. 25–30).

5

9. Increase of labour productivity. 11. 12

(pp. 30–34).

6

10. Organization of competition. 13. 14. 15

(pp. 34–40).

7

11. "Well-organized organization" and dictatorship. 12 bis. 15

(pp. 40–55).

Military organization. 16

Principles of Soviet organization. 17

Objections. 18

8

Development of Soviet organization.

(pp. 56–62).

9

Conclusion:

pp. 62—

Conclusions (résumé).

Written in the second half of March – first half of April 1918.

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript

Outline of Report on the Struggle Against Famine at a Joint Session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Moscow Soviet, and Trade Unions[68]

Imperialist war and [ Meat and butter are rationed

international causes of famine – — —

– — – — in all countries, both belligerent and neutral.

The bourgeoisie everywhere arranges itself "comfortably"

the people starve

(in Germany and Austria especially, needless to say in ruined and defeated countries).

Grain monopoly… [ since ~ year? ]

||| Doubling of grain prices by Kerensky (August 1917)

{ Criticism of this by the entire democratic and socialist press. }

* Zirka – approximately, about. Ed.

Written in June, no later than 4, 1918.

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript